Re: Review: draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-01.txt (port-scanning)

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:40:54PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le Vendredi 19 Août 2005 11:00, Tim Chown a écrit :
> > http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-chown-v6ops-port-scanning-im
> >plications-01.txt
> >
> > It's one of those 'kind of obvious' texts, but has received good
> > comments while it was live.
> 
> I'm not decided myself how well that would fit in such a would-be 
> revived document, but, anyway... it might be worth to mention how/why 
> being on-link makes it easier to find out host addresses, e.g. if not 
> by listening to ICMPv6 ND or MLD traffic, by pinging the allnodes 
> multicast addresses.

Interesting... it was initially written with the 'from off link' view,
but could include on-link briefly, or other methods to discover on link
addresses remotely.

Thanks,
-- 
Tim/::1